Jane Austen Quotes

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

I have very little patience with children.

Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

Never give a Blow in a passion. Stay till your passion is over; and let the Offenders plainly see, that you deal thus with them, out of a pure Obedience unto God, and for their true Repentance.

We want instant food … instant peace. We need patience, patience, patience